F in elocution

Thank goodness for the obituary columns in the Review’s sports section or I may not have seen the satirical cartoon “Mallard Fillmore.” Mallard the duck was wondering why the major media failed to comment on President Obama’s error in pronouncing corpsman as “corpse man,” even while using his faithful teleprompter.

I checked my oldest Webster dictionary to find corpsman was pronounced kor-man in 1828. With President Obama’s excellent education at Punahou and Harvard and his serving as president and editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, I was surprised at his ineptness of not knowing the title of a military medic fondly referred to as “Doc” by Navy and Marine Corps personnel.

As the grandmother of a 19-year-old Marine being deployed to Afghanistan, I’m not impressed by his commander in chief. Perhaps President Obama should take some time off his mission of stuffing “health care reform” down the throats of Americans who don’t want it.

As Mallard suggests, President Obama might go down in history as our corpse-man in chief. Just who is the “quack”? First, do no harm.

Donna Kuhn

Spokane